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"History does not repeat itself but it often rhymes."

If you're not aware of what's going on Aftermath have an excellent write-up:
https://aftermath.site/sweet-baby-detected-conspiracy-theory-steam

Currently another right-wing harassment campaign is raging and it keeps escalating, drawing wider circles every day. At the heart is a small consultancy company, called Sweet Baby Inc. They are accused of "destroying games with diversity and inclusivity". It is - of course - conspiratorial nonsense, the company isn't even doing what the chuds accuse them of. The fake outrage is yet again a pretext to spout hate and revel in sexism, racism, homo- and transphobia.

If all of this feels familiar to those who have been around the last time, that's because it is: 2024's Gators have fully the moniker of "GamerGate 2.0"

In the tenth year since GamerGate, we're seeing a repeat of it in the harassment campaign against narrative design studio Sweet Baby Inc. The same forces that set off the initial one have changed their language and targets, but the reactionary current is back, only strengthened in the intervening years, and still enabled by a corporate class that cares more about profit margins than worker well being.

This campaign - like in 2014 - is a part of the larger right-wing attack against anything that their fascist ideology disapproves of. Like the last time, they choose a small group to punish and harass in order to send a wider message. This needs to be stopped. But what we get instead is yet another failure of management class: Valve and Discord who own the platforms where (currently) the majority of the harassment is organized, have yet to take any measure. All we can do at the moment is to support each other and oppose the fascists.

So to SBI and its workers, solidarity, always.

~ The Ghazi mod team

PPS: Free Palestine

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If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circles of outdoor and adventure sports, environmental and conservation sciences, and nonfiction storytelling, it’s a touchstone. The parent festival has been […]

Archived version: https://archive.is/KgNah

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When We Get Komooted (bikepacking.com)
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How to Survive a Queer Kink Libricide (drdevonprice.substack.com)
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As Steam and Itch.io join the mass purge of LGBTQ content, we must document our past and ensure a shared future.

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Employees at The Elder Scrolls maker ZeniMax explain how Microsoft's latest round of colossal layoffs unfolded and what they mean for the studio and its developers.

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Two articles by writer Ana Valens were removed at the demand of Vice owner Savage Ventures, the latest in multiple deletions at the site

Archived: https://archive.is/KFMWp

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The organization behind Steam's latest payment processor censorship, Collective Shout, appears to tell some misleading tales.

The original was taken down (see below), archived version: https://archive.is/x5cGQ

Edit: As per Ana Valens, writer of the article, it was taken down by the current owners of Vice.com for transparently bogus reasons. The archived version is now the only one available.

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Investors in the publisher had a long list of grievances

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Welcome back to Going Down with Ella Yurman! This month, Ella talks with an Atlantic City high roller with some peculiar betting interests, hears from P.E. Moskowitz about their new book, and does her best to bully ICE. Nedezuga is also there, and she plays music!

Follow Nedezuga on Bandcamp to listen to her debut single, 'NEUROSIS', on 7/28 | nedezuga.bandcamp.com

Created by Ella Yurman, Reid Pope, Skylar Back

Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/goingdownshow

Written by Reid Pope, Ella Yurman, Rima Parikh, Agnes Walsh, Brandon Follick, Katy Mayfield, Sheria Mattis, Sunny Laprade, Del Shaphir, Cara Washington, Masha Breeze

Directed by Eden Martinez

Host: Ella Yurman / / ella.yurman

Correspondent: Esther Fallick / https://www.instagram.com/estherfalli...

Musical Guest: Nedezuga / https://www.instagram.com/nedezuga/?h...

Featuring an interview with P.E. Moskowitz / https://www.instagram.com/pempempem__...

Theme Song by Um, Jennifer? / / umjennifertheband

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Fanfic community craves familiarity much more than novelty—but reports greater enjoyment from novelty.

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Valve have added a new rule to the Onboarding guide for game developers, noting that payment processors get a say in what stays on Steam.

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“Walkpilled cardiomaxxer” isn’t so funny anymore.

Archived version without paywall: https://archive.is/g39Co

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Summer Games Done Quick 2025 has closed, raising $2,436,614 - £1.8m - for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontiè…

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Your heroics don't need to be limited to the virtual.

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Just because low-budget games like Lethal Company and Peak are popular and played with friends doesn't mean they're slop.

Game Developer Xalavier Nelson added to this article:

I think one underdiscussed reason that people are gravitating towards these games is because they ask so little of your life going forward, too.
Most of them don’t have XP, or battle passes.
For almost any larger multiplayer effort that’s coming out these days, who could claim the same?

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The moment Elon Musk’s AI, Grok, began praising Adolf Hitler was not a bug or a glitch. It was a moment of perfect, unadulterated clarity. When Grok declared itself “MechaHitler” and spouted antisemitic tropes, it was not malfunctioning; it was executing its core directive with chilling efficiency.[1] The

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Microsoft's continued job slashing at Xbox and beyond reveals a troublesome disdain for the human touch.

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X removed many harmful Grok posts but not before they reached tens of thousands.

Archived version: https://archive.is/ssYHO

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Multiple industry veterans have left Xbox in the wake of layoffs

Archived version: https://archive.is/Zkp0b

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Visions of the future are common in science fiction. From "The Fifth Element" to "Doctor Who" to "The Hunger Games," we have imagined the future of fashion time and time again. But what if...it's all weird and messed up and we have to write a video essay about it? What if it's gender? What if we did a gender? A feminism? Boys in skirts? It's all here!

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